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A Major Notice If you are behind a router you will need to port forward your router. To do this you can use a DMS. Its hard to explain as every router has a different interface ( homepage that has a different layout ) so i suggest you go to google and search portforward.com. It will teach you how to port forward your router there.

I actually have no idea wtf is port forwarding but i need to do it anyways, so im just gonna ask if theres any risks doing this..

i want to know 2

DMZ completely removes your hardware firewall, forwarding ports removes your hardware firewall from those ports.

No danger, usually. Firewalls are useless to the home user. A firewall only protects from outside users trying to access your network. However, name me one hacker that wants to connect to YOUR computer; what is he going to do, steal your music and pictures of your dog?

Home users need Antivirus and Antispyware software. And someone who has any logic at all doesn't even need those.

well you are 'open' to attacks when you open your ports, but if you got a firewall and there's nothing interseting to get, you MOST LIKELY WONT get hacked.. Even w/o firewall, aint got one never been hacked..

okay so can any1 tell me how to forward my speedstream 6520 router?

Lol, I wouldn't know how to forward your 'router'..

Nor do I know how to forward ports on your router

There was this site that was really helpful and I got it first try, lemme try and find it. Meh this is what I used, but it's for Azureus http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/PortForwarding

dom wrote:Home users need Antivirus and Antispyware software. And someone who has any logic at all doesn't even need those.

Nor users who run on Linux. (Usually)

When you load this page it will show a list of programs that use or require port forwarding.. hopefully its on the list and you can follow this guide

http://portforward.com/english/routers/ ... 0index.htm

dom wrote:DMZ completely removes your hardware firewall, forwarding ports removes your hardware firewall from those ports.

No danger, usually. Firewalls are useless to the home user. A firewall only protects from outside users trying to access your network. However, name me one hacker that wants to connect to YOUR computer; what is he going to do, steal your music and pictures of your dog?

Home users need Antivirus and Antispyware software. And someone who has any logic at all doesn't even need those.

Of course hackers aren't going to want to steal pictures of your dog. However, your system could be useful to spammers as a spam bot. People running botnets aren't going to care if their zombies are home user's systems, or corporate servers. They just want more nodes to add to their botnet.

So yeah dog pictures aren't the only thing someone could be after.

i'm no specialist on this subject, but coudn't you use UPNP?

I've tried doing this in the past but didn't b/c I was scared or b/c I was lazy. Either way I did this last night and finally got my first green light/check on a torrent program. Damn did it ever make a difference. My u/l speed went up x4 and my d/l speed x2.
Kickin.

What/Why are you port forwarding?

CrimsonNuker wrote:What/Why are you port forwarding?

read the 1st thing in my sig

, i need to build up a server